Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system

Hypoglycemia or low blood glucose is dangerous and can result in unconsciousness, seizures and even death for Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients. Based on the T1DM patients’ physiological parameters, corrected QT interval of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, change of heart rate, and the cha...

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Main Authors: Chan, Kit Yan, Ling, S., Dillon, Tharam, Nguyen, H.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15061
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author Chan, Kit Yan
Ling, S.
Dillon, Tharam
Nguyen, H.
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Ling, S.
Dillon, Tharam
Nguyen, H.
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description Hypoglycemia or low blood glucose is dangerous and can result in unconsciousness, seizures and even death for Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients. Based on the T1DM patients’ physiological parameters, corrected QT interval of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, change of heart rate, and the change of corrected QT interval, we have developed a neural network based rule discovery system with hybridizing the approaches of neural networks and genetic algorithm to identify the presences of hypoglycemic episodes for TIDM patients. The proposed neural network based rule discovery system is built and is validated by using the real T1DM patients’ data sets collected from Department of Health, Government of Western Australia. Experimental results show that the proposed neural network based rule discovery system can achieve more accurate results on both trained and unseen T1DM patients’ data sets compared with those developed based on the commonly used classification methods for medical diagnosis, statistical regression, fuzzy regression and genetic programming. Apart from the achievement of these better results, the proposed neural network based rule discovery system can provide explicit information in the form of production rules which compensate for the deficiency of traditional neural network method which do not provide a clear understanding of how they work in prediction as they are in an implicit black-box structure. This explicit information provided by the product rules can convince medical doctors to use the neural networks to perform diagnosis of hypoglycemia on T1DM patients.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-150612019-02-19T04:26:00Z Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system Chan, Kit Yan Ling, S. Dillon, Tharam Nguyen, H. hypoglycemic episodes genetic algorithm Neural networks type 1 diabetes mellitus medical diagnosis Hypoglycemia or low blood glucose is dangerous and can result in unconsciousness, seizures and even death for Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients. Based on the T1DM patients’ physiological parameters, corrected QT interval of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, change of heart rate, and the change of corrected QT interval, we have developed a neural network based rule discovery system with hybridizing the approaches of neural networks and genetic algorithm to identify the presences of hypoglycemic episodes for TIDM patients. The proposed neural network based rule discovery system is built and is validated by using the real T1DM patients’ data sets collected from Department of Health, Government of Western Australia. Experimental results show that the proposed neural network based rule discovery system can achieve more accurate results on both trained and unseen T1DM patients’ data sets compared with those developed based on the commonly used classification methods for medical diagnosis, statistical regression, fuzzy regression and genetic programming. Apart from the achievement of these better results, the proposed neural network based rule discovery system can provide explicit information in the form of production rules which compensate for the deficiency of traditional neural network method which do not provide a clear understanding of how they work in prediction as they are in an implicit black-box structure. This explicit information provided by the product rules can convince medical doctors to use the neural networks to perform diagnosis of hypoglycemia on T1DM patients. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15061 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.020 Elsevier fulltext
spellingShingle hypoglycemic episodes
genetic algorithm
Neural networks
type 1 diabetes mellitus
medical diagnosis
Chan, Kit Yan
Ling, S.
Dillon, Tharam
Nguyen, H.
Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system
title Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system
title_full Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system
title_fullStr Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system
title_short Diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system
title_sort diagnosis of hypoglycemic episodes using a neural network based rule discovery system
topic hypoglycemic episodes
genetic algorithm
Neural networks
type 1 diabetes mellitus
medical diagnosis
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15061